AlbertP wrote:Please open a new topic. Xorg's CPU usage has nothing to do with this.

Hi,

My problem could come from the issue of Intel Driver, Xorg also. This is what i figure out. So at this time my question is on the rigth post. Also, as I mentionned in an other post, after loggin all the menus take a crazy time to appear and I realized that Python was taking 70% of my cpu...

So this problem could come from many sources, including Intel Drivers at it can slow down a machine

After a Top and C after loggin, I confirm that is Python that takes more than 95 % of my CPU, for the MintMenu/plugins/get_apt_cache.py. See the screenshot.

I tried to remove Mint update from the automatic software at start up, the problem is still the same.

Any idea ?

Thanks

According to your screenshot it's a plugin in MintMenu (apt-cache?) that appears to be causing the problem, not MintUpdate. You can always try removing MintMenu from the panel as a test just to see if it temporarily solves the problem. I've used LM 13 MATE and am currently using LM 14 MATE neither one has exhibited this problem so it's a strange one.

According to the specs you posted in your previous post the Intel driver is loading correctly and it sounds to me that apt may be stuck. Either way, I believe that AlbertP is correct and you should open another topic, leave the link to that topic here and we can go from there.

Update: I don't know what happened but my comment here appears to have become scrambled upon "submit". I did preview it more than once to check for grammatical errors before I posted it so I don't know what happened. I have corrected the rather glaring errors.

Last edited by kmb42vt on Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:13 am, edited 2 times in total.

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After a Top and C after loggin, I confirm that is Python that takes more than 95 % of my CPU, for the MintMenu/plugins/get_apt_cache.py. See the screenshot.

I tried to remove Mint update from the automatic software at start up, the problem is still the same.

Any idea ?

Thanks

According to your screenshot it's a plugin in MintMenu (apt-cache?) that appears to be causing the problem, not MintUpdate. You can always try removing MintMenu from the panel as a test just to see if it temporarily solves the problem. I've used LM 13 MATE and am currently using LM 14 MATE neither one has exhibited this problem so it's a strange one.

According to the specs you posted in your previous post the Intel driver is loading correctly and it sounds to me that apt may be stuck. Either way, I believe that AlbertP is correct and you should open another topic, leave the link to that topic here and we can go from there.

Update: I don't know what happened but my comment here appears to have become scrambled upon "submit". I did preview it more than once to check for grammatical errors before I posted it so I don't know what happened. I have corrected the rather glaring errors.

goetzkluge wrote:I got the same issue. get_apt_cache.py and checkAPT are slowing down the CPU.

The time synchronization seems to be the problem.

As I run my linux from an external disk and as I used it during a trip on a PC which runs its HW-clock on local time, I had changed UTC in /etc/default/rcS to "NO". (By the way, that didn't help. I still had to readjust the MS-Windows time after running the external Linux).

Anyway, now I am back at my PC which has its HW clock running with UTC. As the setting for travelling was the only thing which I had changed recently, I reckoned that this may have been the culprit.

After setting UTC in /etc/default/rcS to YES again and after running sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata in order to select my timezone, the problem with get_apt_cache.py and checkAPT.py disappeared